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GM heat pump recovers energy from EV battery to power heating & propulsion while helping conserve range: Ultium Energy Recovery

Green Car Congress

Ultium energy recovery is available on all current Ultium vehicles and planned for future Ultium vehicles. EV batteries, power electronics and other propulsion components produce heat. With its active heating capabilities, Ultium vehicles can also potentially charge more efficiently by warming up the batteries before charging.

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General Motors increases EV investment by 75% through 2025

Teslarati

The car ultimately never made it to mass production, and it was listed on TIME’s “50 Worst Cars of All-Time” list, which is harsh considering it was one of the first attempts at a battery-powered vehicle in the modern age. GM has been relatively successful in its quest for EV powertrains in the 21st century.

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GM to boost EV and AV investments 75% to $35B through 2025; new battery plants

Green Car Congress

We are investing aggressively in a comprehensive and highly-integrated plan to make sure that GM leads in all aspects of the transformation to a more sustainable future. which is developing hydrogen-powered heavy trucks to launch in 2024, and Liebherr-Aerospace, which is developing hydrogen-powered auxiliary power units for aircraft.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

This appeases the purists who can’t imagine a Harley that’s quiet and scent-free while letting H-D move into the electrified future. But the battery-powered two-wheelers get separate showrooms, sales methodologies and marketing programs aimed at different target audience. The LiveWire at launch was a Harley. Fine with me.

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What Does GM’s “30 New EVs By 2025” Promise Mean for the US Market?

EV Adoption

These announcements and PR efforts are fundamentally about GM’s long-term future but they have clearly paid off in the short term as GM’s stock price has increased 55.3% The 15 years in the future 2035 aspiration to stop selling gas- and diesel-powered vehicles is clearly a long way off and a lot can change in that timeframe.

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. GM produces the Chevy Volt and GMC Hummer EV and is preparing its 2023 launch of the Silverado EV.)

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Why are electrical automobile names so unholy?

Baua Electric

Battery-powered using deals a cleaner, quieter and sooner or later less expensive technique to move — an aspirational perspective that branding executives should distill right into a slew of catchy unutilized automobile names. The battery-powered Jaguar is the I-Era. The ones labels won’t day smartly.